Young Li Laosan travels a thousand miles in search of true love, beginning a brief romance with Zhang Meng. Their story has happiness and laughter, pain and sorrow. In the end, he decides to stay in this city, work himself to the bone, and carve out a place of his own. But Zhang Meng's sudden death throws his plans into disarray. His dreams vanish in an instant. Unwilling to give up, Li Laosan sets out on his own. He pedals a tricycle and works as a chef, but none of it turns out as well as he imagined, and making ends meet becomes a problem he cannot avoid. Li Laosan hopes to turn his life around with Zhao Ting's help. But this woman is impossible to read, and instead she gets him into trouble. In the end, Li Laosan has no choice but to run away.
